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False consensus effect

False consensus effect

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Sep 3, 2026

Noni FinlaysonGUEST
4:56
Yeah, look, I think almost certainly.
Noni FinlaysonGUEST
4:59
We don't have that exact data, but that false consensus is really persistent and it's getting worse.
Noni FinlaysonGUEST
5:05
So as you said, only 22% of non-Indigenous Australians said that they don't consider treaty as important for reconciliation.
Noni FinlaysonGUEST
5:13
but they felt that 64% of Australians probably agreed with their opinion.

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Noni FinlaysonGUEST
15:17
I've been doing this for about five years now.
Noni FinlaysonGUEST
15:19
None of this unfortunately surprised me.
Noni FinlaysonGUEST
15:23
I think some of the things that disappoint me most is that some of this agreement with modern racism has stayed so stable and the fact that we're still getting that huge false consensus.
Noni FinlaysonGUEST
15:38
Again, this is really unsurprising given the way that social media influences people's perception.
Kevin MaxHOST
16:06
Okay.
Kevin MaxHOST
16:07
One of the other failures you talk about is the quote-unquote false consensus trap.
Kevin MaxHOST
16:12
Can you tell me about that?
Irina BevzaGUEST
16:13
False consensus is related to have a lot of similarity.
Irina BevzaGUEST
16:18
And I think it's actually very human as well.
Irina BevzaGUEST
16:20
But the idea behind it is if you have very similar models or prompts, I think now we move down to the prompt engineering is more common where you basically have like a system of agents and they're too agreeable with each other.

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